6 Celebrities You Probably Didn’t Know Were Latinas

Most of the time when we see a list of beautiful or powerful Latinas, the same names seem to pop up: Eva Longoria, Sonia Sotomayor, Gloria Estefan, Salma Hayek and the like. But there are a number of beautiful and powerful women whose heritage as second or third generation Latinas never made headlines. Maybe that’s because showing your Latino heritage has only become acceptable or desirable within the last couple of decades. So here are six famous women you probably didn’t know were Latinas.

I wonder if these women would even have careers if they were starting out today. Certain people make too big a deal over anyone having even remote Hispanic ancestry.It’s usually people in Latino media who need someone to put on the covers of their magazines!

It’s almost like a cult among some people. For instance, who cares if Cameron Diaz doesn’t speak Spanish. As a child I knew that these women had partial Hispanic ancestry, and it was no big deal. I don’t know that I would call any of these women Latina, and I doubt they call themselves that either.